Sunday, January 15, 2006

These Shorts Are Real Dogs!

I can’t watch a Dogville comedy. They aren’t funny, and the animals do not look comfortable. Each of these interminable shorts is an alleged spoof of a big Metro feature, like The Broadway Melody or The Big House. The way they make the dog’s mouths move is creepy --- I know my own dog hates it when somebody makes him walk on his hind legs, and he certainly does not enjoy wearing clothes. The idea of MGM making comedies like this is very strange. Some renegade, States-Rights, Poverty Row outfit like Victory or Chesterfield, should have produced them. If I’d been Norma Shearer, I would not have wanted one of my features playing on a bill with a Dogville Comedy. I would have cut Irving off until he agreed never to do that.

1 Comments:

Yeah, me too - they're unwatchable. Good point about such a major studio making such small-time stuff, and yet apparently some of these had a pretty big budget, they were very popular in their time, and their directors went on to have apparently respectable careers. Guess it's just one of those glitches in taste that are incomprehensible to following generations.